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A couple weeks ago, Sara Smith of Search-This interviewed me for her Podcast and it turned out terrifically well. Subjects include:

Paid link reporting - Will it have a big impact? Who will it influence?

Edu & Gov Links - Are they more valuable than regular domains? Why does the Page Strength Tool use them?

Optimizing for Google vs. Yahoo! - What's the difference?

60 Seconds on Best Practices - (I actualy took about 100)

Keyword Research Tools - A Quick Overview

Premium Content from SEOmoz - Why did we do it? What do you get?

A Little Personal Information - at the end, I give my life goal :)

Watch out, though. When you get to the blog entry page, you'll need to look over on the right hand side for this Flash widget:

You have to click on the "Rand Fishkin" link at the bottom, then hit "play" inside the iPod icon. Usability on that is a bit lacking, but the content is cool. I'm gonna have to check out Sara's other interviews. Whoops... Nevermind, I'm the first one! I'll have to check them out as she does them, then :)

15 Comments

I'm glad people liked it. I know I really enjoyed doing it and thought Rand gave some GREAT answers. Thanks again for participating Rand.

And I actually agree with the robot comment! I've been interviewed before but this was the first interview I've held so it was definitely a different experience and you have a different set of concerns when you are the one HOLDING the interview. Rand is a big reason it turned out as well as it did because he is really a professional.

I've got a series of interviews lined up with people in the web industry (Dan McComb of Biznik.com, Mark Harbottle and Matt Mickiewicz of SitePoint.com, Veerle Pieters of http://veerle.duoh.com/, Dean Edwards--JavaScript Ninja, and many more) and hopefully overtime it all becomes more natural for me.

PS I'll second / third the player comments above - I just had to pause it when the phone rang and when I started it again, it went back to the beginning, so I'll never know why Rand doesn't have an mp3 player...

I really enjoyed this intereview. Thanks to both of you for putting the time in on it. The topics covered were great.

But...I have to agree with everyone above about the widget player. I tried to fast forward and it would skip to the end, so I'd rewind and it would start over again. I couldn't get to the specific timelines mentioned in the post, I had to listen to the whole thing from start to finish without interruption. Good thing it was a good interview.

The player drove me crazy too. I started the stream and was enjoying the conversion then like a fish I saw something shiny (a text link). I thought great I will read an article while listening to the POD cast. Once I clicked the link the stream stop. When I went back I tried fast forwarding and it kept taking me back to the beginning.

Next, my phone rang 2/3 into it and I couldn't stop the stream. Once again I had to hear the beginning all over again. Finial on the 4th try I heard the whole interview!

Does anyone need a transcript I could probably recite the whole interview back to you I heard it so many times! ;-)